The way Auden chooses a specific number, which is also a quite large, this suggests Miss Gee’s loneliness of how she lives on this long street with many houses but yet she has no one. Further into the beginning we receive slight physical features about Miss Gee, however they give us reason to believe this is maybe why she lives alone. “Slight squint” and “no bust at all” both these quotes give us the impression that Miss Gee was an unattractive women. They defeminise the picture we may have already interpreted of her and this could have been Auden’s purpose as we begin to understand the reasons for her reclusive behaviour. Once again Auden repeats “Clevedon Terrace” to reinforce the idea, that Miss Gee is almost like everyone else, living in a low
(p.18). Here we see that she refrains from discussing her own thoughts and emotions from her children. This line indicates her struggle, and further in the story, hopes she would open up her mind to her mother to reveal her current feelings and emotions. When she arrives at her mother's, she is appalled during the few hours of her lunch visit with her. Her mom lives in a very closed in and elegant home where she was also self-contained.
Grandma Lynn is one of the more vibrant, vain and misunderstood characters within the novel, like her Daughter she portrays an air of selfishness (Relating back to her daughter leaving the family in a time of crisis) however she takes the role of the level-headed peacekeeper throughout her appearances in the Novel, from her arrival before Susie’s funeral to her departure. We also notice how she is a hardened person, unlike the rest of the family. Sebold represents her as a vain and self-conscious character, an alcoholic and above all she has a straight forward attitude. Sebold initially represents Grandma Lynn in the play as one of the more hardened characters, upon her arrival we already get an idea of the character as someone who is unaffected by personal crisis’s such as Susie’s death, even before her arrival the call between Abigail and Grandma Lynn helps to portray her hardened character, the way that she is blankly states that “She has to come because it’s Susies funeral” she doesn’t seem to show much emotion on her arrival and the way that she brings a more vibrant atmosphere into the solemn and sad house. Even on her arrival instead of confronting the issue of Susies death she orders for a “Stiff Drink”.
Both of them are very vulnerable and have a child-like mentality. Lennie is very mentally undeveloped and Curley's Wife is described in the book as a 'girl'. Proving to us that there was going to be a connection between the two characters throughout the whole book. On the other hand, people such as George and Candy had no affection or tenderness towards Curley's Wife even after she has been killed. Candy carries on calling her a 'tart' even when she is lying on the floor with a broken neck.
She is also a loner with no friends and I myself don’t have a large amount of friends. In the beginning of the novel Melinda seems like a loner with no friends, and a little insecure, “As we leave the last stop, I am the only person sitting alone”(3) She is always alone except for sometimes she hangs out with this new girl Heather. Melinda also has nothing good to ever say about herself. Melinda changes throughout the novel due to all the stress she goes through. It makes he stronger with conflicts she goes through.
Her family structure is different than any typical Asian American household because her parents don’t communicate with each other. The reason her mother immigrated to the United States, was because her father saved her from a tragedy that happened during the time he was at China. Ying-Ying never said or objected anything from her husband because when she was younger, she grew up with her baby sitter, Amah, telling her to “never ask, only listen” (pg. 70). Throughout Ying-Ying’s life, she never expressed herself and was quiet most of the time, even around her daughter who was the only person she was able to communicate to in the house.
Even more painful is the fact that she remembers very little about her previous life: “I [can] remember my name, my age, that I [am] a woman, but death swallowed the rest” (4). She attaches herself to different humans or “hosts”, her first being a lonely poet. Helen and this character have an unspoken bond. While the poet cannot see her ghost, they are learning from each other. This host’s life is similar to that of writer Emily Dickinson, in that they both are isolated poets who express darkness and death in a lot of their work.
Since her mother spends her greater part of her time on Stan instead of using some of her off-duty hours on Annabelle, Annabelle lacks her mother’s attention. She just wants acceptance for actions. At home she feels overlooked and in the school she fades in the crowd. She is just an ordinary girl nobody really notices. Annabelle is having a hard time accepting the fact that her father and mother aren’t together anymore and her father has been replaced with Stan.
She is an intellectual, a poet with fans that she simply brushes aside, and an occasional lover, carrying on relationships until she grows weary of such interaction and then returning to her prior state. With this in mind, Judith becomes neither a spinster nor a romantic, but instead simply a woman who has freed herself of both societal constraints and expectations. In the beginning of the story, the narrator seriously ponders Judith’s possible role as a spinster, not only citing that Judith rarely goes out to socialize, but also creating a metaphor between the narrator’s older aunts that live together, alone and unmarried with many cats, and Judith’s living situation. These points quickly become invalidated, however, proving that in many ways Judith is not at all “one of your typical English spinsters.” (Lessing 142) The first contradiction to this view comes when the narrator is describing Judith’s apartment. As she scans the bookshelf, the narrator notices a number of books with fairly romantic inscriptions.
This shows just how weak her character was on the inside as she was unable to accept the set back and continue her usual (and very luxurious) way of life. Chronologically speaking, this was the very first loss of expectations in the book and serves as a permanent example to the rest of the characters of what the consequences may be if they rely too heavily upon their own expectations. Miss Havisham mainly dealt with her loss by becoming a recluse and hiding from the outside world from the comfort of Satis House. The other way she dealt with her extensive psychological pain was to take